Adobe After Effects Introduction

The After Effects Introduction course gets you quickly up to speed with the basic concepts of working in After Effects, and how to best use the software to achieve your needs. Completion of the course will leave students with a good fundamental knowledge of After Effects, and the confidence to use it in a professional environment.

The emphasis throughout this introduction is on practical and interactive exercises. These exercises will cover incorporating video with Photoshop and Illustrator graphics, video layering techniques, working with keyframes, using filters for special effects and rendering your final project. You will also look at different rendering techniques and ways to optimise the finished production for broadcast, HD or the web.

You need no previous experience to attend this course.

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Course outline

Day 1

Project set-up

Setting up a project

Using the Project window

Importing Media

Creating a New Composition

Composition Settings

Amending Composition Settings

Adding media to a composition

Animation

Animating Scale, position, Rotation Anchor Point, Opacity

Keyframe basics

Adding Keyframes,

Deleting Keyframes,

Moving Keyframes,

Amending Keyframe Values

Keyframe interpolation basics

Copying & pasting Keyframes

Layers

Layers

Using Layers

Layer order

Turning layer visibility on and off

Soloing layers

Hiding Layers

Locking Layers

Working with layers over time

Using the Timeline

Trimming layers

Animating layers independently

Using Text Layers

Using Shape Layers

The Transform properties

Using Blend Modes

Effects

Adding Effects

Amending Effects

Effects Controls Tab

Keyframing & Animating effects

Basic 3D

Turning a layer into a 3D layer

Moving and rotating in 3D

Understanding and creating Pre-Comps

Using Pre-Comps

Using a Track Matte

Using Alpha channels

Looping video footage

Text

Adding Text

Amending & Formatting Text

Adding Text animation presets

Retiming Text animation presets

Using Layer styles

Adding Graphics

Output

Rendering & exporting a final movie

Optimising for social media or Broadcast

Day 2

Workflow & import options

Roundtripping with Adobe Premiere Pro

Importing Compositions into Premiere Pro

Dynamic Link

Exporting from Premiere Pro to After Effects

Importing layers from Photoshop

Importing Layered Illustrator Files

Turning Illustrator Files into editable vector graphics

Making Photoshop Text editable

Making Photoshop Layer Styles editable

Animating Photoshop layers

Advanced keyframing

More about keyframes

Further principles of keyframing

Copying and pasting keyframes

Keyframe assistants

Time reverse keyframing

Simultaneously editing multiple keyframes

Using Parent and Child layers

Adding Motion Blur

Using Paths

Creating a path

Drawing a path on & off

Animating shapes along a Path

Auto-Orient

Questions & answers

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